As you may recall, Rockpile put out a bunch of records during their brief lifespan mostly not under the Rockpile name. Here's one of Edmunds' two.
This starts out with the one-two punch of Girls Talk (Elvis Costello) and Crawling from the Wreckage (Graham Parker) - Edmunds wasn't much of a songwriter, but he was an great interpreter & player.
@hotdogsladies I think I've actually heard that episode, but I need to listen to it again... Chris Molanphy is definitely someone you want on your Music Trivia team.
The video seems to hit that window when British bands were making short videos for lower cost exposure overseas on American TV, but there wasn’t an MTV yet. I’ve never seen a Graham Parker video until now.
Lot of those 16mm Brit Vids got drowned out pretty soon by the Major labels realizing MTV was a thing, and starting to give big bucks to Michael Jackson.
I was a PA on a Video for some local jazz/session player/zappa geeks thinking content hungry MTV would lap their video up when the majors announced their big plans in Billboard, which I relayed in a meeting, maybe you ought to enter it in the MTV Video contest instead. They did. They won.
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